Winter Olympics: Canada grabs first gold, Russia picks up pace
Canada's Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir inspired Canada to the figure skating team title to secure the Winter Games heavyweights' first gold, Russia received silver and the USA bronze
Russia slowly picking up the pace, on Monday, Russian free dance duo grabbed a silver medal for the Olympic Athlete from Russia.Evgenia Medvedeva and Alina Zagitova took their first silver of the Gamesat the Gangneung Ice Arena.Till Sunday Russia had won just a bronze.
On the other hand, ice dance stars Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir inspired Canada to the figure skating team title to secure the Winter Games heavyweights' first gold at Pyeongchang 2018 on Monday.
Competing in their third Olympics, Virtue and Moir earned a maximum 10 points for their shortprogrammeand matched that in the concluding free with an exhilarating four-and-a-half minute performance to the music of Moulin Rouge.
For defending champions Russia, competing in South Korea as OAR after Russia's state-sponsored doping ban was difficult.
The USA team was third.